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Absolute friends de John Le Carre
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Absolute friends (original: 2003; edição: 2003)

de John Le Carre (Autor)

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Fictio Thrille Historical Fictio HTML:Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could.
In Absolute Friends, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the age
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Membro:wendyle
Título:Absolute friends
Autores:John Le Carre (Autor)
Informação:Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
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Etiquetas:fiction, espionage

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Absolute Friends de John le Carré (2003)

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I preferred this to The Constant Gardener (his previous one). It felt a little lop-sided — the denouement really rushed at you. A more understated fury than recent books, but still a furious fury. Notable for being a very direct, very quick response to "The War On Terror", published in 2003.
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
I'm a big fan of le Carre and might have stuck with this under other circumstances. I just finished [b:A Legacy of Spies|34496624|A Legacy of Spies|John le Carré|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1495227039s/34496624.jpg|55619118] and this older book wasn't living up to that standard. It just didn't click. The unsympathetic main character, Ted Mundy, was floundering from the start and so was the plot, jumping around in time at least three times, it seems, before the end of the first chapter. I don't even know what the stakes are. I need to move on to something else in my giant TBR pile.
  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |
Los amigos que dan título a la novela son Ted Mundy, hijo de un militar británico, nacido en 1947 en Pakistán -el mismo día en que el país declaró su independencia-, y Sasha, hijo de un pastor luterano de la República Democrática Alemana refugiado en la República Federal.
Los dos se conocen siendo estudiantes en Berlín Occidental, una ciudad sacudida por las algaradas y las manifestaciones; se reencuentran una década después en el turbio ambiente de la guerra fría y el espionaje, y vuelven a coincidir una vez más -su experiencia más atroz hasta la fecha- en el mundo unipolar del terror, el contraterror y la guerra de las mentiras.
  Natt90 | Mar 21, 2023 |
Ted Mundy started off mildly intriguing, then his life after meeting Sasha veered off into
violence, negativity, double-croosings, political mumbo-jumbo, and a goofy tale of more violence
involving a troupe of actors and their bus.

Very disappointing after a decent start... ( )
  m.belljackson | Apr 15, 2020 |
It's no secret that John le Carré is a master storyteller that manages to use measured yet laser-focused writing to describe story lines that would be treated in a much more hyperbolic manner by other authors. He continually manages to make the exciting mundane, and by doing so to make the mundane even more exciting and believable. This wasn't my favorite of his novels, but it was completely gripping and fascinating as it covered different territories and times than others of his that I have read. The story of Sasha and Mundy's friendship was beautifully described, and the ending was superbly executed to add an unexpected extra dollop of emotional depth. ( )
  23Goatboy23 | Jan 17, 2020 |
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In this book John le Carré, the pro's pro, seems determined to resume his own apprenticeship as a writer, to shuck off the last stubborn vestiges of public-school cleverness. The rant at the end of the book is the proof. He does the most un-English thing imaginable: he loses his head while all about him are keeping theirs.
adicionado por John_Vaughan | editarNY Times, Terence Rafferty (Jul 20, 2011)
 
Una nueva muestra del mejor le Carré, en forma de salvaje fábula sobre la hipocresía de la política, aunque no exenta de ternura, y a la vez un canto a la amistad que sobrevive en un mundo despersonalizado y sin rumbo. Con su habitual maestría, le Carré relata la historia de dos amigos a lo largo de cincuenta y seis años: Ted Mundy, hijo de un militar británico, y Sasha, hijo de un pastor luterano proveniente de la Alemania del Este. Ambos estudian en Berlín Oeste y se reencontrarán primero en la guerra fría y años más tarde en un mundo amenazado por el terrorismo y sojuzgado por la política americana de la guerra global.
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Fictio Thrille Historical Fictio HTML:Today, Mundy is a down-at-the-heels tour guide in southern Germany, dodging creditors, supporting a new family, and keeping an eye out for trouble while in spare moments vigorously questioning the actions of the country he once bravely served. And trouble finds him, as it has before, in the shape of an old German student friend, radical, and onetime fellow spy, the crippled Sasha, seeker after absolutes, dreamer, and chaos addict. After years of trawling the Middle East and Asia as an itinerant university lecturer, Sasha has yet again discovered the true, the only, answer to life-this time in the form of a mysterious billionaire philanthropist named Dimitri. Thanks to Dimitri, both Mundy and Sasha will find a path out of poverty, and with it their chance to change a world that both believe is going to the devil. Or will they? Who is Dimitri? Why does Dimitri's gold pour in from mysterious Middle Eastern bank accounts? And why does his apparently noble venture reek less of starry idealism than of treachery and fear? Some gifts are too expensive to accept. Could this be one of them? With a cooler head than Sasha's, Mundy is inclined to think it could.
In Absolute Friends, John le Carre delivers the masterpiece he has been building to since the fall of communism: an epic tale of loyalty and betrayal that spans the lives of two friends from the riot-torn West Berlin of the 1960s to the grimy looking-glass of Cold War Europe to the present day of terrorism and new alliances. This is the novel le Carre fans have been waiting for, a brilliant, ferocious, heartbreaking work for the age

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